AppDynamics Extension for Google Compute Engine Monitoring

Use Case

With GCE we can run large-scale workloads on virtual machines hosted on Google's infrastructure. The GCE monitoring extension captures statistics from the GCE and displays them in the AppDynamics Metric Browser.

Prerequisite

Create a service account for your GCE project and download the privatekey file (.p12 file). To do this:

1. Log into the Google Cloud Console

2. Click on the project you want to use the GCE monitoring extension with (or create one if you don't have one yet).3. Click "APIs & auth" in the left sidebar4. Click "Credentials" in the left sidebar5. Click "Create New Client ID" and choose "Service Account"A private key file (.p12 file) will be downloaded for you. Note the password for the private key! This private key is your client private key.

Installation

Download and unzip the file 'target/GCEMonitor.zip' to <machineagent install dir>/monitors